Learning to live a healthy lifestyle one bit, bite and bark at a time!

Out of control…

by agirlandhermutt on August 6, 2010

My recycling for this week is out of control. Well, honestly, it isn’t exactly my recycling, but more that I keep getting things in the mail and I have all the boxes piled up in my living room. Lovely huh?!

Who lives like this?! I promise I’m not addicted to online shopping. *EEK!*

Last night was dedicated to getting my apartment back in working order. I’ve been totally swamped with work and such that my house has suffered. Have you ever noticed that the minute your kitchen is out of order, the rest of your house is in disarray? How does this happen? I finally got my butt in the kitchen, cleaned up and added some much needed brightness to the place.

The Scientist has a knack for picking out the exact flowers that will make me smile. 🙂

After a full night of cleaning and getting everything in it’s place, it was time for a quick & easy meal. Whole wheat rotini, a little pesto sauce, and a nice glass of COLD wine. Mmmm…

In other random news, can we talk about the book I picked up at the library?

Yes! It is really called There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby. I totally didn’t even notice until I got a strange look on the train the other day. I am the creepy book reader this week! This book is a collection of short, but scary tales. I’m really enjoying it! This was a good way to get back into reading for enjoyment, which doesn’t happen much when I’m in school. Boooo.

First of all, you don’t even want to see my recycling pile. I don’t have recycling pick-up at my condo so I’m responsible for dropping it off somewhere. I take it to my parent’s house since they have pick-up service, but I ALWAYS forget to take the bags with me when I go over there. I have literally 7 paper grocery bags full of recycling right now!

I never really noticed it before, but now that you’ve mentioned it, you’re totally right. As soon as my kitchen is a disaster my whole house goes to shambles! I always start cleaning in the kitchen too.

Finally, I’m definitely going to have to check out that book. I love scary stories!

Yeah, why is that, when the kitchen is a disaster zone, that’s when you notice that the rest of your house looks like you live like a slob? I find that my entire house looks much cleaner if I just load the dishwasher and wipe down the counters on a daily basis. It’s like my entire house revolves around my kitchen or something. Heh. 😀

this is one area where I am freakishly controlled – I love to receive packages, sending packages, opening packages… and I think part of that is the breakdown of boxes and saving packing material… so I can send more packages!! 🙂 I open the box and break it down right then, and then look at the goodies 🙂

We have a HUGE recycling container and it’s pretty easy for me to walk outside to the back deck and recycle.

…I’m sure I’d be using it as furniture if we didn’t have a service to pick it up 🙂

What a great list! I’m a big fan of Burroughs. I need to read the more recent ones he has put out. I also loved Water for Elephants. We have similar taste in books! I’m going to check out the others. THANKS!

Ha! That looks like our recycling pile. Love Gerbers, so pretty.
Speaking of being out of control, that would be our book collection. I seem to by them faster than I can read! Here are a few I’ve read recently, none are new, but all are excellent:
The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
🙂

I am listening to 74 Seaside Ave. by Debbie Macomber and it’s not very good. I just finished one Oprah reccomended The Talented Mr Ripley and I didn’t like it either?? Up next is Eat, Pray Love!

Beautiful flowers! My kitchen is a complete mess at this moment in time. Yesterday I cleaned the entire basement and the upstairs suffered. I’ll clean it all today while the girls trash the basement LOL It never ends ’round here LOL

Your flowers are beautiful. I think I may love A for bringing them. That is such a sweet thing to do!